Montreal!

anyway I'm SUPER BUMMED I'm not in MTL ~right now~. I was gonna do a thing tonight at Casa but had to cancel my whole weekend b/c of food poisoning. It is OK. I will see Nicky Da B and Patrick Woof tomorrow

urgh! what poisoned you??

Me, according to the Heartland thread.

urgh! you?

muhahahahahaha!

I talked about it on a couple other threads but I've had shitty shitty food poisoning for the past 12 days, three more days of antibiotics and hopefully it'll be gone. It was a whole roast suckling pig I ate on my birthday with my inlaws and they urged me to eat of warious parts of the animal that I ought not to have done (the brain, the ear). It's been a bilious, delirious and creative couple of weeks

sweet jesus

Yeah I've lost fucking seven pounds so far it has not been pleasant. I tried to go jogging today and my thighs felt like empty garbage bags :(

I talked about it on a couple other threads but I've had shitty shitty food poisoning for the past 12 days, three more days of antibiotics and hopefully it'll be gone. It was a whole roast suckling pig I ate on my birthday with my inlaws and they urged me to eat of warious parts of the animal that I ought not to have done (the brain, the ear). It's been a bilious, delirious and creative couple of weeks

― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Sunday, September 23, 2012 10:21 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg man.. that's brutal!! where did you eat this?

(i've eaten most of those parts of the animal myself... but i guess it was properly prepared)

Oh man. I am missing Nicky da B because four days of pop drained me and I have class in the morning and your casa thing was maybe the only reason I would have stayed up but it's supposed to be great.

Patrick was A++ although pop time constraints and vocal strain limited the set to an hour-ish (though I couldn't hear it hen he sang, just when he spoke). Not sure if a jazz club set up is what I expected but the

Concert was lovely and I'll probably post real thoughts on the pw thread

i was kinda worried about my contribution itt being lazily cut & pasting cinema du parc listings once in a while just to draw attention to exciting-to-me film events (like, they are showing a few wong kar wai movies, soon), BUT, check it out:

http://www.cinemaduparc.com/english/prochainemente.php?id=waintegrale#top

how neat to live here

some good programming going on there recently for sure
that is a lot of woody allen, yes, wow

i have never seen Fallen Angels, so may go see it!

i think i have recovered from pop montreal but am still tired because i just keep going out (not late tho)
i saw the last 3 Patrick Wolf songs - so good! :)

psyched for woody allen's fallen angels

starring kristen stewart and jeremy renner

*swoons*

ubiquity and lovability of k-stew and j-ren

it's genius really

and they both play the allen character

What a beautiful day to be a Montrealer (unless you live in the suburbs I guess).

Love: ducking under the weighted-down tree branches
Crossing the slushy streets, not so much

Actually, i went for a walk and just fell head first in a huge puddle on St-Denis.

aw man

this time of year is so nice. everyone has me so spooked about winter, here, but it's so good right now. it's like those days at the end of summer where, if you're out in the day just wearing a t-shirt, it's just-about too cold to walk home in the same clothes. but you can almost celebrate the season by doing that & just dealing with the fact that it's fine to be only-just too cold. everyone is all wintered up but it isn't bad, yet. i am walking around with my coat open. it's okay. i guess it will be bad soon, but at the moment it's just pretty & brisk & you feel very conscious of any exposed skin & you get home & warm up.

favourite thing today is seeing people walk those huge elliptic curves to get around the puddles under sidewalks

least favourite thing yesterday: total inability to gauge where the sidewalk ends/road begins

I can tell you about that. :<

so the world is practically gonna end on wednesday huh

weather was ridiculous today.

in a nice way

i am getting pretty into the realfeel weather forecast element on my phone & can't decide whether to be freaked by tonight being -8, real feel -23 WRT wednesday being actual-minus-twenty-three at its warmest.

oh geez now it's just getting real again. I remember for the first few years I lived here (starting 2002) the whole week of my birthday (this week) was -20 to -35, usually on the colder end, often with worse windchill. The -42 windchill days I just didn't leave the house.

The wind tonight was blowing in all the directions.

oh gawd

on the bright side happy bd rrrobyn

i am still kinda grimly intrigued by it getting so crazy, just because this week is gonna be the first time that it is like ... transcendently bad. i have seen snow before so seeing lots of it is just part of a scale, like dreaming about snow. but i feel like minus forty or whatever is like a whole-nutha-sport. tonight was super cold & i kept putting my gloved hands in my mouth for warmth, but the brightness of the afternoon sun was so nice too. i was on a bus, it was strobing.

this is, even for montreal, pretty fucked up

i was driving back from nb through this! so scary

i was driving back from nb through this! so scary

Stocking up on groceries, no plan to leave house this week

this morning i walked for 35 minutes from home to a warm place where i stayed for 30 min and then walked 35 minutes back and i was fine with only moderate grumbling about my face being cold.
so just wear thermal tights/long johns over yr pants, a warm coat, two scarves, a hat and put your hood up when the wind blows, and it's fine. i think the worst is having to stand at a bus stop or something. always be moving.

vrai canadians don't complain abt cold iirc

Yeah, jeez, just get good boots, good socks, a good coat, some plain ole longjohns and the weather's no big deal.

the other worst is having to walk over the rosemont overpass to the metro - always windy. oh how i recall the (supposedly dangerous) heyday of walking across the tracks.
xps
yep. i got good warm boots last year and wear two pairs of wool socks when it's this cold and everything is fine. except my nose gets cold and when i put a scarf over it, my glasses fog up. but hey.

longjohns OVER your pants??

then another pair of pants on top

then a pair of shorts

i wouldn't be caught dead in good boots

Bah, -40 windchill is a way of life on the Prairies, I tell you.:P

but it's a dry cold!! ;)

i walked downtownish and back again this evening and it felt like it was warmer out but apparently it wasn't, so i guess i just became hardier.

I felt the same way too